CNET News.com: The GIMP 1.2.1 [Review](Mar 29, 2001, 22:26)
"After many years of development in the open source community,
the GIMP has matured into a remarkably powerful image manipulation
program with an extensive set of features rivaling that of Adobe
Photoshop."

ZDNet: Oh say can you CeBIT?(Mar 29, 2001, 21:52)
"A number of companies not thought of as Linux vendors used
penguins to proclaim their support. The German applications giant
SAP had a large penguin staring across an aisle toward the massive
Microsoft display."

Economist.com: Digital baroque(Mar 29, 2001, 21:22)
"The idea is that when an update to a particular piece of
software becomes available, Nautilus allows the user to download
and install it with a single click."

LinuxPlanet: New HOWTO: Linux XDMCP HOWTO(Mar 29, 2001, 21:14)
This HOWTO describes how you can use the combination of X
Display Manager (xdm, kdm and gdm) and XDMCP (X Display Manager
Control Protocol) to provide the mechanism for an X terminal and a
platform of cheap remote X apps solution. This document will be
focusing on how to setup connection using XDMCP.

ZDNet AnchorDesk: Embed Linux, and put Microsoft on the desktop...(Mar 29, 2001, 20:39)
"Here's where I lose all my friends in the open software
foundation: no, Linux is not going to move into the office any time
soon. And the reason has nothing to do with the release of Windows
XP. It is: you can't get the staff for Linux operations."

LinuxProgramming: Cadence releases TestBuilder 1.0, a testbench C++ class library(Mar 29, 2001, 17:41)
"Cadence Design Systems, a supplier of electronic design
products and services, announced the release of TestBuilder 1.0, a
new version of its testbench C++ class library that now includes a
rich library of event expressions and support for VHDL as well as
Verilog. With these enhancements, TestBuilder 1.0 has extended C++
into a full-functioned verification language for production
use."

Evans Research Survey Says 77% of Linux Developers Prefer Red Hat(Mar 29, 2001, 16:36)
"Research firm Evans Data has released a survey of Linux
developers indicating that the majority of those surveyed selected
Red Hat Linux as the most likely distribution for use with web
servers or web application servers. The survey involved over 300
Linux developers interviewed in January of 2001, of which 77.2%
chose Red Hat Linux. 3.5 times more than the number two choice of
distributions."

SuSE Security Announcement: Kernel Backdoor (April Fool's joke)(Mar 29, 2001, 15:28)
"Many German Linux users have been calling SuSE support to learn
details on how to deal with this problem, not willing to believe
that the article is an April Fool's joke on security. None of the
claims are correct, which makes a kernel update unnecessary for
this particular problem."

LinuxPlanet: DistributionWatch Review: Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1 Beta
(Mar 29, 2001, 14:09)
The news has been full of Caldera lately, from its retrenchment
away from the retail market and hobbiest user base to its
acquisition and reinvention of UnixWare into a Linux-friendly OS.
This leaves us all wondering what that means for their distribution
and its loyal enthusiasts. Scott Courtney says Caldera OpenLinux
Workstation 3.1 beta is a promising, developer-friendly release
that provides a development workstation right out of the box. A
look at the good, the bad, and the ugly.

UPDATED: RedPepper: A World Without Microsoft
(Mar 29, 2001, 14:09)
"If you own a PC, you've got your own software factory. If you
can write good software, multi-billion pound companies need you --
but you could string together the words and numbers that shape the
world as well from a bedroom in Calcutta as from their plush
offices in Silicon Valley. The consumers own the means of
production, the workers hold all the cards: welcome to the future,
a world where the anarchy of software economics has the potential
to overturn capitalism." [ Tony Stanco, the principal
interviewee for this article, has contributed an interesting
addition to the debate surrounding this article. His comments
within. -ed.]

IT-Director: Peace, Love, Linux and IBM(Mar 29, 2001, 09:22)
"This is completely unprecedented. A company launching and
aggressive marketing campaign for a product that it has no claim
over and for which it cannot obtain even one cent in direct
revenues."

Linux Weekly News for March 29, 2001(Mar 29, 2001, 09:02)
Leading items and editorials: The janitors get organized,
Singapore Linux Conference/LinuxWorld Singapore 2001 and Three
years of Mozilla.

Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - openssh(Dec 06, 2000, 23:21)
"In versions prior to 2.3.0, if the openssh client receives a
request for ssh-agent or X11 forwarding, it does not check if this
feature has been negotiated during session setup and grants access.
This could allow remote access to the client's display and
ssh-agent service."